that could have happened in real life. Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird ‚ has real world events that shaped how the novel was written‚ events such as the Scottsboro Trials‚ The Murder of Emmett Till‚ and The Great Depression. One example of a real world event that shaped Harper Lee’s writing To Kill a Mockingbird was the Scottsboro Trials. When Lee was a little girl the ongoing Trials were well known to people in
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on southern blacks‚ to prevent readers from partaking in racial injustices. This was represented by the Scottsboro Boys trial through the Tom Robinson case‚ and the battle between the racial classes by the fastidious nature of the southern communities. Lee’s writing was influenced by the historical setting of her time to portray the unfair treatment of blacks‚ by using ideas from the Scottsboro trial to recreate it with the Tom Robinson case. The racist white community considered black members of
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-1 Racist‚ ignorant‚ lying southern folks convicted a black man for rape even though he did not do it… welcome to the early 1900’s. The events of the Scottsboro Boys‚ Emmett Till‚ Medgar Evers and many racially motivated murders and trials‚ gave Harper Lee the background for her novel. Just like in the Scottsboro Boys there was a man that was wrongly accused even though the “victim” said that the man never raped her and while trying to escape from prison was killed. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird
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Lee was writing about the trial of Tom Robinson‚ she had a very real case to look to for inspiration in the Scottsboro Boys Trials‚ from the 1930 ’s. “Those trials showed how history made it clear that in the Deep South of the 1930 ’s‚ jurors were not willing to accord a black man charged with raping a white woman the usual presumption of innocence” (Linder‚ “The Trials Of The Scottsboro Boy’s”). In Harpers Lee ’s story‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ she uses the conflict of ’person versus society
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Bailey Dismuke Cherry Cantrell English 10 The Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro Trials were the most infamous episodes of legal injustice in the Jim Crow South. The events of the Scottsboro Trials that culminated in the trials began in the early spring of 1931‚ when nine young black men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train (Encyclopedia of Alabama : Scottsboro Trials 1). This case was more hectic than any other event in the South because it revealed the barbarous
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railroad stationmaster’s office in northern Alabama. They claimed that while they were riding the rails‚ a "bunch of Negroes" picked a fight with them and threw them off the train. The stationmaster phoned ahead to the next station‚ near Scottsboro‚ Alabama. A Scottsboro deputy sheriff made deputies of every man in town with a gun. When the train stopped‚ the posse (group of people legally authorized keep the peace) rounded up nine young black men and two young white women. The women‚ Ruby Bates and Victoria
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By: Jessica Kanterjian To: Mme Brooks Date: Wednesday ‚November 9th 2011 To kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Trials 1. A)Write a 200 word summary of the Scottsboro trial ‚ based on Miss Randall’s account The Scottsboro Case started off with a group of nine young African American men being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young boys aged from thirteen to twenty. They were accused of raping two white women (Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. A fight broke out between two groups
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Scottsboro Incident Summaries In 1931‚ nine black boys were arrested because they got into a fight with a group of whites and threw them overboard. The local sheriff had the boys arrested‚ and also two white girls that were on the train. The two girls were scared that they were going to be blamed for vagrancy‚ so they said that they were raped by the nine Negros on the train. In no time‚ the blacks were set to jail and were put on trial. The two girls came up with a bunch of lies about being
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GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PRE-AP SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read
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were called the Scottsboro boys. This case had a big impact on American history. The case caused American’s to look at the racist views they held since times of slavery. Although the case created extreme conflict‚ it ultimately
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